Moreno v. Marrs’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Flowers v. Rock Creek Terrace Ltd. Partnership (1987), Juhl v. Airington (1997)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 30 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · 31 Cal. 3d 362 - Lipson v. Superior Court · 20 Cal. 3d 199 - Walters v. Sloan · Williamson v. Smith · Novak v. Dow
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]egligence in causing a fire is not a basis for liability to firemen injured in fighting the fire. In fact, the view that there is no liability to a fireman for negligence in causing a fire is a statement of the fireman's rule as it originally existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in reality nothing more than contributory negligence' and is to, be governed by the principles pertaining to contributory [and subsequently, comparative] negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“hidden perils, where the owner or [occupier] knows of the peril and has the opportunity to give warning of it,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.